Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• supposedly "Auversian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section MHi-2
•Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3533: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia irrorata stony coral | |
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Bivalvia | |
Chlamys nupera Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Atrina jacksoniana Dall 1898 oyster | |
Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
Glycymeris filosa Conrad 1854 clam | |
Barbatia cuculloides Conrad 1833 clam | |
Teredo mississippiensis Conrad 1854 clam | |
Nemocardium nicolletti Conrad 1854 cockle | |
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam | |
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Scaphander jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 snail | |
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell | |
Fusimitra millingtoni mitre shell | |
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Natica permunda Conrad 1854 moon snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
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